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Detective Superintendent Leigh Wall said: “This was a frightening ordeal for the shop staff who are naturally shaken up by the whole incident. Such violent crime has no place in Surrey and we are doing everything possible to find those responsible and bring them to justice.

“We’ve had a huge response from the local community so far and I’m very grateful for the information they have provided.

"We’re particularly interested to hear from anyone who knows anything about the silver Renault Megane. Did you see it in the area before the incident? Was it parked in your street? Who owns it?”

Surrey Police is looking for information about this car (Image: Surrey Police)

Min Cahalane, 60, of Woodward Clothing in Station Road East, said they saw two men fleeing the jewellers, the Surrey Mirror reports .

She said: "We heard a siren, for some reason there has been a few today but this sounded different. We are right opposite Paul James and I saw lots of white smoke and thought ‘that’s a bit weird’.

"I didn't know what was going on over there. Then I saw someone doing something that didn't look like staff but it was hard to see because of all the smoke.

"Two men ran out and went around the corner past [the] Natwest Bank, that’s when I called the police. Lots of people saw the two guys and some people gave chase. An old lady was nearly knocked over by the men and she shouted after them.